[3] The area is residential in the north east/east and commercial in the south and west and The Gyle Shopping Centre is nearby.
[4] Dominated by a major road junction, the most notable feature is the Maybury Roadhouse, built in 1936 and one of Edinburgh's examples of Art Deco architecture, it was designed by Paterson and Broom.
The cottages were the result of the 19th century drives to the living conditions of farm workers and are Category C listed buildings.
[8] There is a police box[9] and Cook's Garage[10] that were built or recorded as existing in the 1930s and that are still in the area today.
Archaeological excavations, between 1990 and 1992, in advance of development found a Neolithic trackway, evidence for Bronze Age settlement and a large stone-built structure dating to the beginning of the first millennium AD.